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HOSE CARRIAGE. No. 318,444. Patented May 26, 1885.

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CHARLES A. BLUHM, OF MICHIGAN CITY, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, HENRY H. BLUHM, AND FRED H. BLUHM, ALL OF SAME PLACE.

HOSE-CARRIAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 318,4:424', dated May 26, 1885,

Application filed March 16, 1885. (N0 model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. BLUHM, a citizen of the United States, residing in Michigan City, in the county of La Porte and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hose-Carts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in mounting the hose reel or drum upon the axle of the cart and combining it with the revolving wheels by means of a clutch, so that it may revolve with the wheels or independently thereof, as may be desired. reeled up either by hand or by the movement of the cart, as preferred.

It also consists in the novel devices and novel combinations of devices herein shown and described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a hose-cart embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a partial plan view. Fig. 3 is a front view; Fig. 4, a central longitudinal section through the axle. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are cross-sections 011 lines 5 5, 6 6, and 7 7 of Fig. 4, respectively.

In said drawings, A represents the frame of the cart, B the axle, O the wheels, and D the hose reel or drum. The wheels revolve upon the axle, and are secured in the usual manner, the axle having shoulders I) and nuts I). The drum D is prevented from sliding on the axle B by means of a ring or projection, b, secured to the axle engaging a grooved ring or saddle, d, secured to the drum on its inner face. The drum or reel D is caused to re volve with the wheels 0 by means of the sliding clutch-sleeves d engaging the clutch-faces c of the wheel-hubs c. The sleeves cl have square ends d which fit in the hubs d of the drum, so that the drum must turn with the sleeves. The sleeves d are at all times free to turn on the axle, and when the clutch 01 engages the clutch-face of the'wheel-hubs the drum will revolve with the wheels. \Vhen not so engaged, it may revolve independently of the wheels. The clutches d are operated si- In this way the hose may be multaneously by a pair of levers, E, having yokes or collars c, which fit in the circumferential grooves d in the sleeves d, which levers are pivoted to brackets a on the frame, and are connected to the hand-lever E by the rods e. The lever E may be fixed in position to hold the clutches engaged or disengaged by notches e in the curved bar Q The side bars, a, of the frame fit 011 each side of the drum D, so that, the drum being stationary on the axle, it will also prevent the frame from sliding thereon.

The hose drum or reel is preferably constructed of two hubs or wheels, (1, four removable drum or spindle pieces, (1 and four threaded rods, d having nuts d by which the whole is bound together. The grooved ring cl is made in two or more parts and secured to the drum-pieces d by bolts or screws (Z My invention is applicable to both horse and hand hose-carts; but in the drawings I show it as applied to a hand hose-cart.

F represents the reel for winding up the traction-rope; f, the crank for turning it, and fa weighted pawl for holding it in position.

I claim- 1. The combination, in a hose-cart, of its axle and wheels with a hose reel or drum fitted loosely so as to turn freely on said axle, and a clutch consisting of a clutch-face on the wheel and a sliding clutch-sleeve on the axle, whereby the reel may be made to revolve with the wheels when desired, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with hose-reel D, provided with grooved ring or saddle d, of axle B, provided with ring or projection 7)", wheels 0, provided with clutch-faces c, and clutch sleeves cl, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with hose-reel D, provided with grooved ring or saddle d, of axle B, provided with ring or projection b wheels 0, provided with clutch-faces c, clutch-sleeves 'd, clutch-levers E, and hand-lever E, substantially as specified.

4. The combination of hubs d with drumpieces d and threaded rods (1, substantially as specified.

5. The combination of hubs d drum-pieces d rods d, grooved ring or saddle d, made in clutch-faces of said Wheels, and levers for opparts and secured to said drumpieces, and erating 'said clutch-sleeves, substantially as 10 axle B, provided with ring or projection b specified. substantially as specified.-

5 6. The combination, with the axle and wheels of a hose-cart, said wheels having clutch-faces, Witnesses: of a reel or drum mounted on said axle, apair of FRED KRENTZ, sliding clutch-sleeves adapted to engage the H. B. TUTHILL.

CHAS. A. BLUHM. 

